Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#1

Post by smarky » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 3:06 AM UTC

I was curious as to what was the best way to create a resume.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#2

Post by privong » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 3:29 AM UTC

If you like LaTeX, there's some templates here: https://www.latextemplates.com/cat/curricula-vitae

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#3

Post by cjbprime » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 4:11 AM UTC

privong wrote: post #2

If you like LaTeX, there's some templates here: https://www.latextemplates.com/cat/curricula-vitae

And here: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#4

Post by wincy » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 4:11 AM UTC

I just use a Microsoft Word template. Hasn’t hurt me yet.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#5

Post by vfulco » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 5:46 AM UTC

As a professional resume editor, I am still forced to rely on MS Word since headhunters and often internal HR require it. If you use a more "sophisticated" toolset like Latex and have the liberty, try to send your resume in pdf since I see way too many MS Word resumes with formatting all screwed up. You can't be sure what app/version the reader will be using.

Working on an R-Markdown/Latex combo, this can work great for individuals (check github for examples) but hard to quickly switch for larger volumes of client work since nearly everyone has a different background and so the sections need to be tweaked.

Was a real bummer json resume as a standard didn't take off particularly due to the non-rendering of MS Word versions. PDF was also an issue.

Vince Fulco, CFA, CAIA vfulco[@]weisisheng.cn

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#6

Post by matt_the_bass » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 12:20 PM UTC

When posting job opening for my company, we always ask for resumes in PDF format. It’s amazing how many applicants send NOT PDFs.

I suggest reading the description to see if there are any format requests.

Yes, I know pdf is not the tool to make the resume, just an output. But I think this is a related input.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#7

Post by bewe42 » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:47 PM UTC

I use a very simple setup of HTML + template engine (Jinja2). Then I maintain the entries of my resume in a YAML file. Finally, I export HTML to pdf.

If interested, I describe it here: bernhardwenzel.com/articles/jinja-yaml/ + github

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#8

Post by ashwn » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 3:39 PM UTC

I really like the formatting tool ineedaresu.me. It has an easy interface and clean templates.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#9

Post by faical » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 5:00 PM UTC

privong wrote: post #2

If you like LaTeX, there's some templates here: https://www.latextemplates.com/cat/curricula-vitae

Or here: https://www.sharelatex.com/

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?

#10

Post by ud0 » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

I actually just redid my resume here https://udokah.github.io/resume

Created with React/Webpack/HTML5/CSS3

The cool(or not so cool) thing is that it generates a PDF version of the page using NodeJS for every new update which is downloadable via the link provided.

Hosted with Github Pages.